Perspectives on Punishment

The Contours of Control

Edited by Sarah Armstrong and Lesley McAra

Perspectives on Punishment

The Contours of Control

Edited by Sarah Armstrong and Lesley McAra

Description

This book offers an incisive collection of contemporary research into the problems of crime control and punishment. It has three inter-related aims: to take stock of current thinking on punishment, regulation, and control in the early years of a new century and in the wake of a number of critical junctures, including 9/11, which have transformed the social, political, and cultural environment; to present a selection of the diverse epistemological and methodological frameworks which inform current research; and finally to set out some fruitful directions for the future study of punishment. The contributions to this collection cover some of the most exciting and challenging areas of current research including terrorism and the politics of fear, penality in societies in
transition, penal policy and the construction of political identity, the impact of digital culture on modes of compliance, the emergent hegemony of information and surveillance systems, and the evolving politics of victim-hood.

Taken together, this work draws connections between local problems of crime control, transnational forms of governance, and the ways in which certain political and jurisprudential discourses have come to dominate policy and practice in western penal systems.

Perspectives on Punishment

The Contours of Control

Edited by Sarah Armstrong and Lesley McAra

Table of Contents

Notes on ContributorsForewordAcknowledgements1. Audience, borders, architecture: the contours of control, Sarah Armstrong and Lesley McAra2. Ordinary anxieties and states of emergency: statecraft and spectatorship in the new politics of insecurity, Richard Sparks3. Tony Martin and the nightbreakers: criminal law, victims and the power to punish, Lindsay Farmer4. European identity, penal sensibilities and communities of sentiment, Evi Girling5. Penalization, depoliticization, racialization: on the over-incarceration of immigrants in the European Union, Loïc Wacquant6. Prisons during transition: promoting a common penal identity through international norms, Laura Piacentini7. The globalization of control - towards a
control system without a state?, Thomas Mathiesen8. Welfare and punishment in comparative perspective, David Downes and Kirstine Hansen9. Sentencing as a Social Practice, Neil Hutton10. 'Architecture', criminal justice, and control, Richard Jones11. Power, social control, and psychiatry: some critical reflections, Andrew Scull12. Origins of actuarial justice, Malcolm FeeleyNotes on ContributorsForewordAcknowledgements1. Audience, borders, architecture: the contours of control, Sarah Armstrong and Lesley McAra2. Ordinary anxieties and states of emergency: statecraft and spectatorship in the new politics of insecurity, Richard Sparks3. Tony Martin and the nightbreakers: criminal law, victims and the power to punish, LindsayFarmer4. European identity, penal sensibilities and communities of sentiment, Evi Girling5. Penalization, depoliticization, racialization: on the over-incarceration of immigrants in the European Union, Loïc Wacquant6. Prisons during transition: promoting a common penal identity through international norms, Laura Piacentini7. The globalization of control - towards a control system without a state?, Thomas Mathiesen8. Welfare and punishment in comparative perspective, David Downes and Kirstine Hansen9. Sentencing as a Social Practice, Neil Hutton10. 'Architecture', criminal justice, and control, Richard Jones11. Power, social control, and psychiatry: some critical reflections, Andrew Scull12. Origins of actuarial justice, Malcolm Feeley

Perspectives on Punishment

The Contours of Control

Edited by Sarah Armstrong and Lesley McAra

Author Information

Sarah Armstrong is a lecturer in criminology and a member of the Centre for Law and Society, University of Edinburgh. Her current research is in the sociology of punishment and focuses on developing a sociology of accountability, analysing privatization in justice and punishment, and contributing to social and cultural scholarship on risk. Lesley McAra is a senior lecturer in criminology and a member of the Centre for Law and Society, University of Edinburgh. She writes and teaches in the fields of the sociology of punishment, youth crime and justice, gender, and crime and criminal justice. Currently she is a co-director of a major programme of research funded by the ESCR, Scottish Executive and the Nuffield Foundation on youth transitions and crime.